[PLUG] Remaining Mail Issues Need Fixing

[wes]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> >   2) My wife's MUA is thunderchicken on her laptop (Xubuntu). Since the
> > network was brought back up she can send me messages, but cannot retrieve
> > received messages from /var/spool/mail/. The message displayed on her
> > monitor is, "Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server salmo
> > responded: unable to process from lines (envelopes), change recognition
> > modes or check for corrupted mail drop." A long time ago I set up poppler
> > so she can retrieve mail over the local wireless connection. The current
> > poppler package is installed. Where do I start looking for the clogged
> > pipe on this issue?
>
>    What I pick up from my Google search is that this is an indication of a
> corrupted /var/spool/mail user file. How can I fix this?
>
>   The permissions are 660 on user files. Mine works OK, so it must be
> limited to hers.
>
>   Can I rename the file a couple of times and see if that works, or is
> there
> an actual method to recreating a user file in that directory?
>
> Rich
>

If it's a regular mail spool file, just use a text editor to open it and
look for anything unusual.

-wes